25

or $9.50 for the month of May.

This morning while I was washing
planes Major Davidson gave the
assembled flying officers, and cadets
about the same speech as he gave
us culprets earlier in the morning.
One of the boys wrote the speech down,
and it's a dandy. The fellows are all up
in arms over it. The speech was as follows.

"This war can be won without
any of you men. You are not needed.
You are entirely unnecessary. In fact
you are nusiances, and we would
be glad to get rid of you. We are just
training you because we have to,
because we promised to, some year
or so ago.

There are now some 16,000
aviators, already with their Brevets,
in the United States and France, and
you men are not needed.

You may rest assured that a
lot of you are going to be eliminated,
not only a few but a lot. We have
hardly known how to handle you
as cadets. Nobody ever did just know